The Poetical Works of James Beattie

by James Beattie

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46 total

THE POEMS OF BEATTIE.

0:01

THE POETICAL WORKS OF JAMES BEATTIE. WITH A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR, BY REV. ALEXANDER DYCE.

1:52

MEMOIR OF BEATTIE, BY THE REV. ALEXANDER DYCE.

1:43:13

ADVERTISEMENT.

1:04

PREFACE TO THE MINSTREL.

1:34

THE MINSTREL; OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. BOOK I.

26:45

THE MINSTREL; OR, THE PROGRESS OF GENIUS. BOOK II.

27:36

RETIREMENT.

2:37

ELEGY. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1758.

4:23

ODE TO HOPE.

4:54

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Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)

Release date

2013-01-02

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Public domain in the USA.

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Subjects

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About the author

James Beattie

1735–1803

A Scottish poet, essayist, and philosopher of the Enlightenment, he was widely admired in his own lifetime for graceful verse and for defending common sense against skepticism. His best-known poem, The Minstrel, helped point the way toward early Romanticism.

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